Playoffs - Odd number of teams
This playoff format would allow for an odd number of teams in the playoffs. Currently, this is not an option for playoff formats.
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Joe Deck
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I agree totally, it's not just a fantasy football problem, it's a fantasy everything problem, ties are stupid have a tie breaker option so we don't have to deal with this. Honestly, I can't believe you guys need users to tell you this, why do you think most leagues have come up with ways where ties aren't possible?
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Jonathan Bowers
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Which league's scoring would you use? What if the same player is on both teams?
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Simon
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A fully customizable playoff schedule would be great. You give us the option to fully customize the regular schedule, why not the playoffs?
Most other fantasy sites allow this already. We've been with Yahoo for 12 years, this has always been an issue. We've had to manage the schedule from the message board and notify everyone who they are playing each week. It's time for a change! -
Brandon
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You do realize that the commissioner can adjust the scoring manually. So if you want to add bench scoring as a tiebreaker, the commish can give +.01 points for that.
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Failure.is.not.an.option
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Nice idea, but what if the teams in the consolation bracket are all non-active managers? If that's the case, then the league commish should be able to allow or disallow the winner of the consolation bracket to be awarded top pick in the following year's draft, or better yet, to select draft position based on the previous season's reverse order of standings. But yes, I agree, it is a fantastic idea nonetheless.
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Kevin Dalrymple
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Simple solution for something that should already be in place. Yahoo needs to relinquish more control to commissioners. YAHOO, PLEASE FIX THIS NOW!
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Anonymous
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Exactly right. This is BS. I had an idea for a 14 team league with no divisions and a 13 game schedule where everybody plays everybody once. Tie breaker is head to head matchup there would be no season splits. If two teams finished 11-2 at the top the team who won the head to head matchup would get a bye as the #1 seed and the other 11-2 team would be the #2 seed and play the #7 seed.
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Tim
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I agree. We have a 12-team league and want the 4 teams that don't make the playoffs square off in a Loser playoff to keep everyone interested and playing until the final week. This also gives the team in last place a chance to not come in last.
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Howard
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Agreed! They need a Wildcard option. You can just choose to have it be the team with the next best record, the team with the most points, or maybe even the team with the best division record. My ideal would be 12man, 2 divisions, div winners get top spots, followed by next two by record, and then the final two teams being those with the highest remaining point totals.
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Jason Haglund
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yeah I wanted to customize my playoff league too :(
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Anonymous
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i have a 16 team L, two divisions of 8. top two teams from each division make playoffs.
as someone else has posted, if yahoo doesnt offer the feature we'll have to do manual playoffs via the mag brd & have inaccurate history. this is our 11th yr & history means alot to us.
please allow us to create custom playoffs.
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Anonymous
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You could also just reward your regular season champ with a small money prize. Our regular season champ gets money equal to the original buy-in. They then obviously have the chance to still play for the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd place prize.
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Dan
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I thought you were crazy at first but then I did the math lol. Great idea.
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Dan
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AFC vs NFC its black and white... Agreed!
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Dan
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Thats a fantastic idea!
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Pete
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Ya,but...I see ur logic, n its good thinking but no way. Its too unrealistic. That's part of competitive sports. Best team doesn't always win, that's life. I hear u, I get shafted a lot at P.Offs, many do. Helps the lil guy out, n hey u never know.
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J.K.
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I somewhat like the idea.
However, using "Total Points Scored" to rank teams is already a working option, and it is better than the current Head-to-Head as well as the modification proposed here. -
Scott
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I agree this seems like an easy fix. I have a 14 team league, top 6 make the playoffs. But the consolation bracket only takes 6 teams as well, meaning there's two teams that don't even make the consolation playoffs. I should be able to do and 8-team consolation bracket. Same number of weeks, keeps everyone involved longer.
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Long-time Player
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Mr Manager,
Your idea is too complex. Why don't you just join/set-up a custom league that is "point-based."
The current format is more like actual football. "Any Given Sunday" -
kia
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This idea is far from stupid. This setup makes a lot of sense! Unusual but logical!